Author: TeeJay

Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 10:05 pm

I dunno if I agree with the whole cross-PAWS thing. Mainly because there are fuck-all studies about PAWS, let alone studies about this stuff. Actually, I don’t think there has been one study on PAWS? Just a few papers, mainly written by Terrence Gorski?

Anyway, alcohol and benzo use wouldn’t do PAWS any good. But having a couple of wines over dinner occasionally I doubt would affect it much at all? To be honest I dunno if drinking occasionally or using benzos would restart PAWS to anywhere near the extent of using opioids, because it’s our outta-whack opioid system that’s causing most of the grief when we come off Suboxone.

I’ve found that some of my doctors (especially psychiatrists) have tried to tell lil white lies if they think they will help them do the right thing. I had a psych tell me when I was on this brain-damage trip that using opioids of any kind stops lithium from being neuroprotective. Ran it past a couple of docs and google and never heard anything about that? I get the feeling most people don’t question their doctor’s orders, so docs use this kinda malevolence to try and guide their patients to do the right thing.

Any mood-altering drugs of abuse of ANY kind aren’t good for PAWS, or recovery. Esp with risk of cross addiction. I think this is why patients are advised to stay away. But by far the worst drug to use is any kinda opioid. Also psychologically, using ANY drug to "take the edge off" is a huge no-no. If a person’s gotta take Klonopin each day, same dose, for epilepsy, and they become tolerant and it doesn’t get them high, that’s a bit different to taking benzos occasionally when the PAWS gets just-too-much to handle. One of those has much more relapse potential than the other.